Some 250,000 Turkish troops then briefly massed on the Iraqi border, jolting the Americans into naming a former NATO commander, Joseph Ralston, as a "special envoy for countering the PKK" (his own description).
No process at all would be better than a dishonest one that hurts America's credibility.Cutting aid is not the only lever Mr Obama has for jolting Israel into acquiescence over the settlements.
In 2009 a Pentagon-sponsored project demonstrated a "Cyborg beetle" whose flight was controlled by jolting it with mild electrical charges.
By the time of next year's presidential election, they may have grown discontented enough to take the trouble to go to the polls and vote, jolting Ayatollah Khamenei, and sending Mr Ahmadinejad packing.
As long as it persists, the debt-to-GDP ratio will get steadily worse.That suggests the authorities should take drastic steps to reflate the economy, jolting it out of its stupor and weakening the currency.
For the government, it would be a jolting reminder of how tough it will be to avoid a highly unwelcome "no" vote in the referendum.But UKIP success on such a scale would confront the Tories with a horrible dilemma.
A palely muscled man with sad, noble features twists as if electrocuted, his body jolting into a lightning-fast sequence of dislocations.
The first two stages, a radical monetary loosening by the Bank of Japan (BoJ) and a generous fiscal stimulus, were aimed at jolting consumers out of their deflationary mindset and inspiring firms to invest.
But that shtick would not survive the serious embarrassment which his party is probably now due.All the same, Mr Farage may already have scored an important success: by jolting the Conservatives towards his right-wing positions.
The real problem, came the reply, was not nodding off, but jolting awake in terror later.
